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nick "i reserve all judgments" calloway

junior year read of one of my faves here we GOOO

"The rest of my weekend passed just like that—doing what I wanted, shutting the door to my room when I felt like it, carrying no concerns other than what book I would start next. And though worry about Ma Ma and guilt for being so selfish popped up every now and then, they got buried under the sentences and pages and chapters and the new ease in my body."

ahhhhhhhh im melting!!

"Try as I did—and boy, did I try that weekend—I could not get around finding her boring. It made me start to wonder whether Ma Ma had missed something in her equation: that maybe, even more than dignity, beauty demanded substance."

"We exchanged another smile and I marveled how, in all the stories of the gold-paved Mei Guo and the dangerous Mei Guo, no one in China knew about the lights of America, about how they were so delightful that they could stop us in the middle of the street, in the middle of our lives and our worries, in the middle of strangers living stranger lives, all just to fill us with music and hope."

wanting to cry by the first chapter im blaming it on the hormones

yes i am starting another book. read excerpts of this for honors american lit at school and thoroughly enjoyed it so i'm reading it in full

idk its good because it's so relatble but also i feel like it doesn't go too far beyond the surface and it's still trying to cover too many things

pacing is a little slow and themes can be repetitive but GOD do i identify with the narrator

hits soo close to home. pacing a little slow tho

19 books behind schedule on my reading goal but probably read wayy more than 19 books worth of fanfiction if you add it all up this year. oh it's so over for me. only consolation is it's probably better than last year at least

reading for school women in literature unit

yes i am rereading a book i rated 3 stars instead of continuing my 5 billion currently readings. yeah i made a whole 30+ slide presentation for my friend on the grishaverse and now am buddy reading this with her. what are you gonna do ab it!!

this is going to be a longg read
i started this a while ago but like 10% in i realized i needed to actually lock in and pay attention for this danmei so here we are after like half a year
imvery excited though
i just wish goodreads seperated this into four diff books because its like 1784173 pages

this book is ass but i love it

i fall into 2nd category obviously but i'm still probably going to give this a 5 stars just becase i KNOW some people would love this and it's not by any means a bad book it's act really good it just MAKES ME SO UNCOMFOTABLEEEE

also yes i'm drafting my review in my progress updates after finishing 1/10 of the book so what

ok but seriously this is a fire book and definitely a must-read. except there's only 2 ways: 1. you absolutely love it cause you love thinking about existential stuff and whether or not physics actually exists and shit 2. you are scared.

sometimes i wish i didn't understand chinese to the level that i do

historical fiction is my jam historical fiction is my jam i literally think i will be scarred for life from this i love history i love history i love history i hate space i hate space i hate space i want to go back to my ming dynasty nonfiction PLEASE

i am so scared of this book.
scratch that i am genuinely TERRIFIED of this book.
i do NOT recommend reading this book at 12 am if you aren't someone who likes having existential crisis
it sends you spiraling bro i don't even know if i love or hate this because it definitely makes me feel so uncomfortable and so uneasy on the inside but at the same time i have to admit the ideas of this are so good

ive been long overdue for a six of crows reread

i have a lot of thoughts and thankfully all of them are good

ah yes i am so ready for some true emotional damage and pain when im going into this knowing the plot and knowing the ending and knowing the characters from the drama and knowing that i will get absolutely destroyed by teh book this time, again!!

and invisioning the actors faces too!!

im simply so excited

pretty intriguing. i don't have any very strong thoughts or opinions yet, but so far it's an enjoyable read.

i do think this is the original romcom though. like this is what started it all, and just like how f451 is remarkable for being the original dystopia, the same holds for jane austen. it's not particularly good when you put it to today's standards, but honestly, i can feel its iconicness

reading this for bhh book dungeon and hey i actually lwk am enjoying it??

vro i have no idea how much im actually done with but holy shit i am about to die rihgtnererh hgaghb

2 pages in and so far haymitch is just a male duplicate of katniss (dad dead in mines, poor)

but im sure his uniquely haymitch haymitchness will show soon

see ik i haven't made any progress but do we ever get in this series why peeta likes katniss? it's as if he's there to protect katniss and that's his only job but why?? i do not believe in love at first sight bro

honestly idk if i can persist on read this at least i finished the movie and i havent even read sotr and i'm already painign for haymitch and the endng is just as stupid as i remembered but at elast the acting is good